Category Archives for Teachable Moment

“There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.” – Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mocking BirdSince the election, hate and violence have slithered out of their holes. Before the election, those snakes–snakes meaning rage, not people–followed the unspoken rule for the most part: express all […]

Maybe there is a faster way to turn novices into experts–to bypass the distance between two far away things like Mrs. Whatsit folds the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. At the end of last semester, I watched videotape of new instructors teaching their first three lessons. For over 100 hours, I observed and noted […]

Photo credit: Bob Fitch, a staff photographer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) , Montgomery, Alabama airport, 1966 In 1995, I found this photo in a display in the Chicago airport after an interview for an English Education Professor job at the University of Georgia. The whole interview went south after one of the […]